cankery, a.
(ˈkænkərɪ)
Also 4– cankry.
[f. canker n. + -y1.]
† 1. Of the nature of a canker; gangrenous. Obs.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lix. (1495) 274 Noli me tangere is a cankry postume in the face. |
2. a. Affected with canker.
| 1674 R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 79 Others [seem'd to be] Cankery or Black-Chollery. |
† b. Rusty; affected as if with rust. Obs.
| 1744 Wogan in J. Burton Genuineness Clarendon's Hist. 140 The ink being turned brown and cankry. |
c. Of trees.
| 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 136 Cut off as much as you can of the Cankry Boughs. 1802 W. Forsyth Fruit Trees vii. (1824) 188 Finding the pear-trees in Kensington gardens in a very cankery, and unfruitful state. |
3. fig. Cankerous; ill-humoured, crabbed. Sc.
| 1786 Burns Ep. Major Logan iv, Cankrie care. 1791 A. Wilson Eppie & Deil Poet. Wks. (1846) 85 Right cankry to hersel' she cracket. ― Poems (1816) 40 (Jam.) The cankriest then was kittled up to daffing. 1864 Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xxxviii. 296 One of them cankery chiels as never have a kindly word for man nor beast. |